PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism Policy

Applied Information System and Management (AISM) recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable in scholarly publication. Therefore, AISM establishes this plagiarism policy to define the editorial actions and penalties when plagiarism is identified in a manuscript submitted for publication.

All submitted manuscripts are checked using anti-plagiarism detection software, including Turnitin. The maximum similarity index allowed for submitted manuscripts is 20%. If the similarity index is more than 20%, the manuscript will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission, or rejected according to the extent of plagiarism identified.

Similarity Threshold

The maximum similarity index allowed for submitted manuscripts is 20%.

Screening Tool

AISM uses anti-plagiarism detection software, including Turnitin, to check manuscript originality.

Editorial Action

Manuscripts with unacceptable similarity may be returned, revised, or rejected based on editorial assessment.

Definition of Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of copying another person's text, data, ideas, arguments, methods, or findings and presenting them as one's own work without proper acknowledgement. To avoid plagiarism, copied or paraphrased material must be clearly identified and properly cited.

Plagiarism is considered a serious form of academic misconduct. It may damage scholarly integrity, author reputation, institutional credibility, and the reliability of scientific publication.

Scope of Plagiarism

This definition of plagiarism applies to copied text, data, ideas, methods, and other scholarly materials under the following conditions:

  • Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea.
  • Regardless of whether the original author copied the text or idea from another source.
  • Regardless of whether the authorship of the copied text or idea is known or unknown.
  • Regardless of the type of manuscript or publication in which the copied text or idea is used.
  • Regardless of whether the original author gives permission for the material to be copied.
  • Regardless of whether the copied material comes from the author's own previous work, which may constitute self-plagiarism.

Plagiarism Levels and Editorial Actions

Minor Plagiarism

Minor plagiarism refers to a small sentence or short paragraph copied from another manuscript without significant data, findings, or ideas being taken from other papers or publications.

Editorial Action: A warning is given to the authors, and the authors are requested to revise the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.

Intermediate Plagiarism

Intermediate plagiarism refers to significant data, paragraphs, sentences, arguments, or parts of an article copied without proper citation to the original source.

Editorial Action: The submitted manuscript is automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism

Severe plagiarism refers to a large portion of an article being copied, including original results, data, formulas, equations, statements, ideas, methods, or substantial parts of other publications.

Editorial Action: The manuscript is automatically rejected, and the authors are prohibited from submitting further manuscripts to the journal.

Policy Statement: When plagiarism is identified by plagiarism detection software or editorial assessment, the Editorial Board will determine appropriate action according to the extent and severity of plagiarism found in the manuscript.